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Public History Mends Lives

Professor Tracey Loughran

12 May 2022

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Episode 1 - A Warm Shoulder: Using History to Empower Young Women - Brighter Futures

This blog was written by Professor Tracey Loughran with Kate Mahoney and Daisy Payling from the Body, Self, and Family project. We recently launched the toolkit – Bodies, Hearts, and Minds: Using the Past to Empower the Future. The toolkit uses historical sources to help young people think differently about their emotional and bodily wellbeing in the present, and their capacity to make change in the future.

Professor Tracey Loughran

12 May 2022

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Meet the researcher: James Jefferies

Research student and Assistant Lecturer James Jefferies, from the Department of History at the University of Essex, explains what inspired him to study history.

Hannah Onslow

09 December 2021

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Meet the researcher: Dr Tracey Loughran

Find out what inspired Dr Tracey Loughran to pursue a career in history research and teaching in our latest Meet the researcher article.

Hannah Onslow

06 October 2021

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Our historians need you to tell your health story

Our historians need you to tell your health story

The Body, Self and Family Project team in the University of Essex Department of History are interviewing women aged between 50 and 80 about their everyday health experiences, to paint a picture of how women in postwar Britain tried to stay healthy, coped with pain, and looked after their health.

Professor Tracey Loughran

18 December 2020

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Meet Student Ambassador: Afroditi Sakellaropoulou

Department of History

09 November 2020

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History and Memory

Department of History

09 November 2020

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Research blog: What’s for dinner?

Research blog: What’s for dinner?

Dr Lisa Smith

22 October 2020

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Hidden histories of the First World War

In this blog, historian Professor Lucy Noakes looks into how the centenary of the First World War was marked and the importance of developing public history projects which uncovered more marginal histories.

Professor Lucy Noakes

06 September 2020

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Mao’s China falsely claimed it had eradicated schistosomiasis – and it’s still celebrating that ‘success’ in propaganda today

Mao’s China falsely claimed it had eradicated schistosomiasis – and it’s still celebrating that ‘success’ in propaganda today

New research shows China's claim to have eradicated this parasitic disease in the 1950s were false, and part of a big cover up.

Dr Xun Zhou

22 August 2020

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